The UN adopts a resolution backing efforts to ensure artificial intelligence is safe

By EDITH M. LEDERER
Associated Press

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The General Assembly has approved the first United Nations resolution on artificial intelligence. The goal is ensuring the powerful new technology benefits all nations, respects human rights and is “safe, secure and trustworthy.” The resolution, sponsored by the United States, was adopted by consensus with a bang of the gavel and without a vote, meaning it has the support of all 193 U.N. member nations. U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said last week that the resolution’s adoption would be a “historic step forward’ in fostering the safe use of AI. He told The Associated Press that the resolution “would represent global support for a baseline set of principles for the development and use of AI.”